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Lovable, very love, the Supreme is also self-love in that He
is lovely no otherwise than from Himself and in Himself.
Self-presence can hold only in the identity of associated with
associating; since, in the Supreme, associated and associating
are one, seeker and sought one the sought serving as Hypostasis
and substrate of the seeker- once more God's being and his
seeking are identical: once more, then, the Supreme is the
self-producing, sovereign of Himself, not happening to be as some
extern willed but existing as He wills it.
And when we say that neither does He absorb anything nor anything
absorb Him, thus again we are setting Him outside of all
happening- not only because we declare Him unique and untouched
by all but in another way also. Suppose we found such a nature in
ourselves; we are untouched by all that has gathered round us
subjecting us to happening and chance; all that accruement was of
the servile and lay exposed to chance: by this new state alone we
acquire self-disposal and free act, the freedom of that light
which belongs to the order of the good and is good in actuality,
greater than anything Intellectual-Principle has to give, an
actuality whose advantage over Intellection is no adventitious
superiority. When we attain to this state and become This alone,
what can we say but that we are more than free, more than
self-disposing? And who then could link us to chance, hazard,
happening, when thus we are become veritable Life, entered into
That which contains no alloy but is purely itself?
Isolate anything else and the being is inadequate; the Supreme in
isolation is still what it was. The First cannot be in the
soulless or in an unreasoning life; such a life is too feeble in
being; it is reason dissipated, it is indetermination; only in
the measure of approach towards reason is there liberation from
happening; the rational is above chance. Ascending we come upon
the Supreme, not as reason but as reason's better: thus God is
far removed from all happening: the root of reason is
self-springing.
The Supreme is the Term of all; it is like the principle and
ground of some vast tree of rational life; itself unchanging, it
gives reasoned being to the growth into which it enters.
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